Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something besides the Paris weather is "absolutely filthy" in your story; it's that absolutely filthy word "Briticism." Granted that it has slipped into the uncritical compendiums which pass for dictionaries nowadays, "Briticism" is a case of verbal illegitimacy at its worst. Its father is unknown (mercifully for him), and it lacks even a mother tongue . . . What's wrong with "Britishism?" I wic you'd write in Englic...
...were "peeping into other people's gardens." He denounced the "very stupid carelessness" of the first Navy reports. Said Vishinsky: "Accordingly, I say that this entire fairy tale about a poor Neptune being shot down . . . will certainly not hold water." Of U.S. reports that the plane was on weather and submarine patrol, he said: "It appears . . . this means practice in testing the radar strength and the radar installations [on the Siberian coast...
...adjoining farm country. There, Republican Incumbent Jeffrey P. Hillelson's troubles are caused more by the elements than by the Eisenhower farm program. The district has been hard hit by drought, and in the Fourth District of Missouri, the incumbent Congressman has a hard time explaining away bad weather...
...best port on the southern coast. In 1949 the Reds tried to take the island with 15,000 men in junks from Swatow. The Nationalists beat them off and burned their junks. The Communists tried again, with 700 men, the following year, but this force got lost in bad weather, and Chiang's men captured 300 seasick Reds...
Near Cambridge, Tusek won points by proving that his versatile Steamer (a Stanley Steamer once held a speed record of 127.66 m.p.h.) could travel slowest in the "high gear"*contest (0:38.6 for 50 yards). Roadside enthusiasts waited hours in all weather to see him pass. "Do you think it's going to explode now?" hopeful youngsters asked their parents. Cyclists and motorists followed Tusek for miles to see if the Steamer would oblige...